ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ «САМАРСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ АЭРОКОСМИЧЕСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ имени академика С.П. КОРОЛЕВА»
РАДИОТЕХНИКА
Учебные задания по английскому языку
Самара 2006
ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ АГЕНТСТВО ПО ОБРАЗОВАНИЮ
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ «САМАРСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ АЭРОКОСМИЧЕСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ имени академика С.П. КОРОЛЕВА»
РАДИОТЕХНИКА
Часть 1
Учебные задания по английскому языку
Самара 2006
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Составители: С.В. Макарова, Э.Г. Размиашвили, О.В. Яковенко
ББК Ш 143.21-923
Радиотехника Ч.1: учеб. задания по английскому языку / Самар. гос. аэрокосм. ун-т; Сост.: С.В. Макарова, Э.Г. Размиашвили,
О.В. Яковенко. – Самара, 2006. 71 с.
Данные учебные задания составлены в соответствии с требованиями программы по английскому языку для неязыковых специальностей вузов. Целью учебных заданий является повторение основных грамматических явлений и развитие навыков и умений чтения и перевода литературы по специальности «Радиотехники».
Предназначены для студентов 1 курса дневного отделения ф-та «Радиотехника». Подготовлены на кафедре иностранных языков.
Печатаются по решению редакционно-издательского совета Самарского государственного аэрокосмического университета.
Рецензент Н. Г. С т е п н о в а
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Unit 1. Faculty of Radioengineering
Topic: Faculty of Radioengineering
Grammar: The Active Voice. Simple Tenses.
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assistant professor n |
доцент |
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facilities n |
удобства |
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быть оборудованным |
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device n |
аппарат, прибор, схема |
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advanced students n |
хорошо успевающие студенты |
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postgraduate students n |
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term n |
семестр |
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research n |
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выпускник |
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Read the following international words and try to guess their meaning:
Assistant professor, automated control system, multichannel, manufacture, higher mathematics, social sciences, technique, analogue, apparatus, design.
TEXT A. Read and translate the text:
Faculty of Radioengineering
The Department of Radioengineering was founded as the base of the Radioengineering Faculty in 1962. It trains radio, electronic, computer, control, systems engineers who are working now in different fields of science and engineering.
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More than 900 students are currently studying there. The teaching staff consists of professors, Doctors of Sciences, assistant professors, Candidates of Sciences and experienced teachers.
The Faculty has all the necessary facilities for teaching including computers, a well stocked library.
The students master such specialities as radioengineering, automated control systems, computer systems, automatic and multichannel communication, designing and manufacture of radioelectronic devices.
The first-year students study physics, higher mathematics, descriptive geometry, technical drawing, social sciences. Later they acquire profound knowledge in electronics, computing machinery etc. Special attention is given to such subjects as impulse technique, analogue and digital computers, theoretical foundations of electroengineering. The students get practical skills in different laboratories equipped with modern apparatus and devices. Advanced students carry out their research under the guidance of supervisors.
The course of study lasts for five years. The academic year is divided into two terms. The first term runs from September to February, the second – from February to July. Terminal examinations are held in January and June.
The students take an active part in social life of the University.
The postgraduate students carry out independent research working in close contact with the teaching staff.
The University provides good engineering education. The graduates of the Radioengineering Faculty work at computing centers, design offices, industrial enterprises, research laboratories.
Exercise 1: Answer the following questions:
1.When was the Radioengineering Faculty founded?
2.How many students study there?
3.What facilities is this faculty equipped with?
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4.What specialities do the students master?
5.What subjects do the students study?
6.Where do the students get practical skills?
7.How long does the course of study last?
8.When do the students take their exams?
9.Where do the graduates work?
Exercise 2: Say whether the statements are right or wrong. Use the following phrases: you are quite right; I’m afraid you’re mistaken; you’re wrong, etc.
1.Radioengineering faculty trains only electronic engineers.
2.There aren’t any facilities for training.
3.The first-year students study physics and mathematics.
4.Advanced students carry out their research under the guidance of postgraduate students.
5.The course of study lasts for five years.
Exercise 3. Complete the sentences:
1.The Department of Radioengineering was founded …
2.The teaching staff consists of …
3.The students master such specialities as …
4.The academic year is divided …
5.The postgraduate students carry out …
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Grammar: A c t i v e V o i c e
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Времена группы Simple обозначают факт совершения действия в настоящем, прошедшем и будущем.
The Present Simple Tense выражает обычное, повторное действие.
Утвердительная форма глагола совпадает с инфинитивом без частицы to: To study – I (we, you, they) study
В 3-м лице единственного числа к глаголу добавляется окончание –s (-es):
He (she, it) studies
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Вопросительная и отрицательная формы образуются с помощью вспомогательного глагола to do ( do и does (для 3-го лица ед.ч.)).
NB!: глагол to be и модальные глаголы не требуют вспомогательного глагола при образовании отрицания и вопроса.
They don’t read (he doesn’t read). Where do you go? (where does she go?)
The Past Simple Tense выражает действие, законченное в прошлом. Правильные глаголы образуют утвердительную форму путем прибавления
окончания –ed к инфинитиву без частицы to. To translate – I translated
Неправильные глаголы имеют особую форму, которая приведена в таблице неправильных глаголов.
To begin – he began
Вопросительная и отрицательная формы образуются с помощью вспомогательного глагола to do в форме did.
She didn’t work. When did you come?
The Future Simple Tense выражает будущее действие.
Утвердительная форма образуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола will и инфинитива без частицы to.
They will leave What will he read?
Exercise 1: Write the following sentences in interrogative and negative forms:
1. I’m very busy today. 2. They are in the reading-room now. 3. We are students of one of the universities of Samara. 4. You are late for the lecture. 5. Mary is a good student. 6. Students have four exams in January. 7. Today they have time to go to the cinema. 8. We have some English magazines. 9. The book has many diagrams. 10. I have good news.
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Exercise 2. Open the brackets using the correct form of the verb:
1.My brother (study) mathematics and physics at the university.
2.These scientists (work) abroad next year.
3.As a rule I (go) to the university by bus, but yesterday my father (give) me a lift because I (be) late.
4.The conference (take) place last month and we (not attend) it as we (not be) invited.
5.At present my colleague (not work) at this factory.
6.In some years we (graduate) from the university.
7.They (pass) all exams last month?
8.You (go) to the library tomorrow?
9.She (attend) this lecture every week?
10.I (leave) school three years ago.
Exercise 3: Write the following sentences in the Past or Future Simple :
1. We study six days a week. 2. I go to the institute every day. 3. My friend lives in a hostel. 4. Usually I get up at 7 o’clock. 5. My classes begin at half past eight. 6. We have four lectures every day. 7. After lectures we go to the library. 8. We do our home-work for the next day. 9. At night I read and watch TV. 10. On Sunday I visit my friends.
Exercise 4: Write the following sentences in interrogative and negative forms:
1. Today our lectures begin at 9 o’clock in the morning. 2. We were schoolchildren last year. 3. We had four entrance exams in summer. 4. Yesterday the firstyear students saw the institute laboratories. 5. We took all the necessary books from the library. 6. I got excellent marks for my entrance exams. 7. He knows the meaning of the world “engineering”. 8. The students of our group will meet in the laboratory. 9. The librarian gave us all the necessary books.
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TEXT B. Skim through the text and give a title.
The second half of the 19th century was a period of rapid growth of electrical engineering. Among those who founded this branch of knowledge and contributed to its further development are P. N. Yablochkov and A. N. Lodygin
— two great Russian scientists and inventors.
Yablochkov invented the electric candle which became known all over the world under the name of "Russian Light".
At the time when the direct current was in universal use, he realized the advantages of alternating current.
The first incandescent lamp for practical use was produced in Russia in 1873 by the great Russian scientist Alexander Lodygin. In his lamp he fixed a small carbon rod of about 2mm in diameter between two copper conductors. In order to protect the lamp from burning through, the lamp's air had been evacuated. Vacuum at the time being far from perfect, the first lamp was shortlived. Its life was measured in hours.
In 1890 Lodygin made his first lamps with a metal filament using metals with high melting points, such as tungsten, molybdenum, osmium. Today the filament of the incandescent lamp is twisted into a spiral. The melting point of tungsten being 3,300°, it can be heated to 3,000°. At this temperature, however, tungsten begins to evaporate. In order to avoid evaporation of tungsten, today lamps are filled with chemically inert gas, i.e. argon or cripton. In a gas-filled incandescent lamp the ends of a filament are connected to the two wires passing through the bulb and attached to the metal base. One of the wires is attached to the base and the other — to the base contact insulated from the base.
The modern tungsten filament lamp in its present form is the result of the efforts of many inventors, but it is to Lodygin that it owes the principal feature of its design: the tungsten filament placed in an evacuated glass bulb and heated by electric current.
Exercise 1: Put five questions to the text.
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Exercise 2: Discuss the inventions of Yablochkov and Loyigin.
Exercise 3. Translate the given words into Russian paying attention to the suffixes:
1.ER/OR — teacher, writer, reader, actor, doctor, professor
2. IST - scientist, artist, biologist, novelist, materialist
3.MENT - development, government, appointment, movement
4. ESS - actress, fortress, hostess
5.IAN - musician, politician, technician
6.ANCE - appearance, distance, importance
7.(T)ION - examination, operation, revolution,translation
8.ITY/TY - ability, complexity, honesty, majority,
reality, unity
9.HOOD - brotherhood, girlhood, childhood, neighbourhood
10.Y - assembly, energy, poultry
Exercise 4. Translate into Russian paying attention to the numerals:
1.The tenth of February nineteen seventy two. 2. The fifth of April eighteen sixty five. 3. The second of May nineteen hundred and three. 4. The first of June thirteen hundred. 5. The third of October seventeen forty eight. 6. In eighteen thirty seven. 7. In twelve hundred and four. 8. The twenty fifth of December nineteen ninety one. 9. In eighteen twelve. 10. On the ninth of May nineteen forty five. 11. On the eleventh of July twenty hundred and one. 12. In twenty hundred. 13. On the sixth of November nineteen ninety. 14. In seventeen zero eight.
Exercise 10. Translate into English:
1) 7 ноября 1990 года, 2) 3 сентября 1984 года, 3) двадцать второго апреля 1907 года, 4) 25 марта 2000 года, 5) двенадцатого декабря 2001 года, 6) 23 июня
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1112 года, 7) в 1749 году, 8) третьего февраля 1002 года, 9) в 1608 году, 10) тридцать первого июля 1305 года.
Text C. Translate the text in writing:
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) : turning on radio
Guglielmo Marconi is regarded as the grandfather of radio communication, who devised the first practical system of wireless telegraphy. Alongside innumerable awards, honours and doctorates, Marconi was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1909.
The son of an Italian father and Irish mother, he made the most of his family's wealth to experiment with physics and electronics on his father's Italian estate, where he successfully managed to send wireless (radio) signals over 1.5 miles.
He moved to England in 1897 to show off his new invention, and following its enthusiastic reception, set up 'The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd'. He continued with more demonstrations, each time increasing the distance covered by the wireless and established permanent wireless links in southern England.
In 1901 he proved that radio waves would bend around the curvature of the Earth, by broadcasting across the Atlantic. He went on to develop improvements to wireless transmission and reception equipment, long-range communications, microwave communication and laid the foundations for radar.
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